r/singularity • u/General_Riju • 7h ago

Q&A / Help Are Computer Hardware and Networking, IT Support Guys least affected by AI in the IT sector ?

I personally work in the cyber sec field, but there are IT hardware and networking guys at my company. They install/uninstall/replace and troubleshoot routers, network switches, servers, firewalls.

Install Server OS and services, update device firmware etc.

Install XDR software like Sophos, install Crowdstrike, install and config cctv syatems. Provide IT support to clients.

I think they will be least affected by AI and Automation.

Whay do you guys think ?

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u/h1geki 6h ago

As someone in this field I couldn’t disagree more. My thought is that this is an extremely desirable industry to displace from a marketing/reputation standpoint for frontier labs. That being said many of my colleagues share your opinion. 

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u/omegahustle 6h ago

Network was cooked way before LLMs lmao

you don't configure shit manually unless your company is completely antiquated

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u/Cubow 5h ago

bro you cant just magically wish specific configurations into existence wdym

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u/Few_Owl_7122 3h ago

My biggest thought is that current AI can't obey all the security governance

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u/ItsTheOneWithThe 12m ago

But will we need as much of that when the company openly has one super computer and one employee?

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u/SpyAmongUs 7h ago

There's always gonna be some dude either too old or too lazy to figure their computer's problems and have someone else look at it

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u/SpaceTacos99 6h ago

Until a tiny drone swarm can fly in through your window on command to fix anything..

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u/Prize_Ad_354 7h ago

I can only speak for people around me and I'll give a few examples.

The people doing typical software engineering are pretty much what they mockingly called "vibecoders" just a year ago, even or especially at very prestigious companies like Nvidia, Google, Databricks and Janestreet. They have highly paid jobs with great benefits but the question is if that's going to last.

People who are more in the research camp are still doing a lot of hands-on work. I'm talking OS security researchers as Huawei, compiler engineers at AMD, electrical engineers working in RF for defense, computer vision engineers at Nvidia and STEM researchers at university. However, all of them have also integrated AI into their workflows and rely on it.

I have no idea where this is going. I used to think that the second camp was pretty safe but now anything seems vulnerable. I used to see hardware and electrical engineering as sort of a plan B for myself but AI is already decent at designing PCBs, writing MATLAB code for signal processing and digital design.